I bought some of it, still have it in the cupboard. It's not too bad, very strong if you brew it like a normal tea, use about 1/2 teaspoon a cup. Has a strong minty taste to it. I think I bought it from generation tea.
It was certainly not disgusting.

I've tried this tea. It's really not that bad. The tea is thick, pitch black, but the colour lightens after a few infusions. The taste is quite sweet, very smooth, and strong. Not bad at all, in fact, and you wouldn't think you're drinking any sort of poo if I didn't tell you.

Not goats, they are a type of varmint, the Asian Palm Civet. The coffee is called kopi luwak. Last time I checked it was going for 300-600USD lbs. I have had some.. I don't know what makes this coffee any different other than a more mellow and less acidic tone. I wonder if you could get the same effect from soaking the beans in a weak solution of Hydrochloric acid.

Not goats, they are a type of varmint, the Asian Palm Civet. The coffee is called kopi luwak. Last time I checked it was going for 300-600USD lbs. I have had some.. I don't know what makes this coffee any different other than a more mellow and less acidic tone. I wonder if you could get the same effect from soaking the beans in a weak solution of Hydrochloric acid.

There is nothing to think Luwak Coffee would be any good. The creatures don't differentiate between ripeness of the cherries. I think its a novelty item. The mellowness or acidity have to due with the coffee beans. I'd bet that the Luwak would taste the same [actually worse, because of what said earlier] as other coffee made from the same plants.

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Kopi Luwak (pronounced [ˈkopi ˈluwak]) or Civet coffee is coffee made from coffee berries which have been eaten by and passed through the digestive tract of the Asian Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). The civets eat the berries, but the beans inside pass through their system undigested. This process takes place on the islands of Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi in the Indonesian Archipelago, in the Philippines (where the product is called Kape Alamid) and in East Timor (locally called kafé-laku). Vietnam has a similar type of coffee, called weasel coffee, which is made from coffee berries which have been regurgitated by local weasels. In actuality the "weasel" is just the local version of the Asian Palm Civet.